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Contents
- Forward
- Preface
Chapter Page INTRODUCTORY: LOGISTICS--THE WORD AND THE THING 3 The Revolution in Warfare 3 Part One: The Neutrality Period I. REARMAMENT AND FOREIGN AID BEFORE LEND-LEASE 21 The Peacetime Logistical Establishment 21 II. WAR PLANS AND EMERGEREPARATIONS 46 III. THE ARMY AND EARLY LEND-LEASE OPERATIONS 76 IV. THE BROADENING PATTERN OF LEND-LEASE OPERATIONS 97 V. WIDENING COMMITMENTS 117 Part Two: Crisis VI. PEARL HARBOR AND EARLY DEPLOYMENT 143 VII. IMPROVISATION IN THE PACIFIC 166 Part Three: The Emergence of Policy and Method VIII. STRATEGY, PRODUCTION GO AND SHIPPING 195 IX. THE MACHINERY OF LOGISTICAL COORDINATION AND ADMINISTRATION 213 X. LEND-LEASE AS AN INSTRUCMENT OF COALITION WARFARE 247 XI. THE ANLGO-AMERICAN MUNITIONS POOL 270 XII. THE ARMY''S SYSTEM OF REQUIREMENTS AND CONTROLLED DISTRIBUTION 295 XIII. THE SUPPORT OF OVERSEAS OPERATIONS 317 Part Four: Build-up and Early Offensives XIV. BUILD-UP IN THE BRITISH ISLES--FIRST PHASE 353 XV. TURNING POINT IN THE PACIFIC 388 XVI. THE DESCENT ON NORTH AFRICA 417 XVII. FOLLOW-UP IN NORTH AFRICA 456 Part Five: Theaters of Foreign Aid XVIII. THE ANGLO-AMERICAN ORBIT 491 XIX. CHINA, BURMA, AND INDIA 525 XX. THE LONG ROAD TO RUSSIA--I 551 XXI. THE LONG ROAD TO RUSSIA--II 574 Part Six: the Casablanca Period--Strategic Plans and Logistical Method XXII. WAR PRODUCTION AND SHIPPING: YEAR'S END OUTLOOK 601 XXIII. ECONOMY AND STABILIZATION 632 XXIV. JOINT LOGISTICAL PLANNING AND COORDINATION 649 XXV. CCASABLANCA AND THE STRATEGIC-LOGISTICAL DEBATE 661 XXVI. AFTER CASABLANCA 687 Part Seven: Conclusion XXVII. LOGISTICAL PLANNING AND ITS END PRODUCTS 709
Appendixes
A. SHIPPING GERMINOLOGY AND PLANNING DATA: 1942-43 722 B. PROCUREMENT: 1940-43 728 730 C. LEND-LEASE TRANSFERS 730 D. NUMBER OF VESSELS AND CARGO TONNAGE SHIPPED FROM UNITED STATES TO USSR: 22 JUNE 1941-30 JUNE 1943 731 E. OVERSEAS DEPLOYMENT 732 F. OVERSEAS SUPPLY 734 G. SUPPLY RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE PORTS OF EMBARKATION 740 H. SHIPPING LOSSES AND GAINS 741 I. GROWTH OF THE SERVICE ESTABLISHMENT: 1942 742 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE AND GUIDE TO FOOTNOTES 743 LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS 751 GLOSSARY OF CODE NAMES 756 INDEX 759
Tables
No. Page 1. Shipping for RAINBOW 5: Estimated Availability and Requirements 74 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25.
Charts
1. The Peacetime Army: September 1939 24 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Maps
1. Logistics of British Imperial Defense, 1940-41 47 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
Illustrations
1 Army and Navy Munitions Board, June 1941 31 The illustrations on pages 218 an 219 are from the U.S. Maritime Commission. All others are from the Department of Defense files.
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